LYNCH, Walter Aloysius, a Representative from New York;
born in New York City July 7, 1894;
attended St. Jeromes Parochial School and Fordham Preparatory School;
was graduated from Fordham University, New York, N.Y., in 1915 and from the law department of the same university in 1918;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City;
served as a magistrate of New York City in 1930;
delegate to the New York State constitutional convention in 1938;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward W. Curley;
reelected to the Seventy-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from February 20, 1940, to January 3, 1951;
had been renominated in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress but withdrew and was an unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of New York;
elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1954 and served from January 1955 until his death;
died in Belle Harbor (Queens), Long Island, N.Y., September 10, 1957;
interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.